Aldermen voted to appropriate funds for a list of capital requests already approved on May 15, with the addition of renovations to the Animal Shelter and a city website package called CivicPlus.

Capital expenditures approved during last month’s City Council meeting included:

• $246,000 for police cars;

• $100,000 put back in fire truck fund;

• $60,000 for a refurbished fuel truck at the Regional Airport;

• $35,000 for tractor for Recreation and Parks Department;

• $17,000 for security cameras for City Hall.

Tuesday, alderman also voted for $100,000 for a new building at the animal shelter and $40,000 to fund the CivicPlus website system for four years.

Animal Shelter Director Mike Vernon explained the 40-by-30-foot building would connect to the current shelter, which opened in April 1996, and include 10 additional dog kennels, a cat area, a quarantine area and improvements to the existing facility.

Alderman Garland Steuber said that it’s time to stop putting off the animal shelter.

“I feel like it’s come to the point where the animal shelter is important,” he said. “Nothing has been done to that since it was opened, and year after year, it is passed over for something more important.

“Personally, I think it is important to me, and it is time.”

The motion passed unanimously.

Look for more from Tuesday’s trio of city government meetings in future editions of The Courier.